[GNC] Two versions, same computer

[Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19)]

Thanks for the feedback, David.

While I was waiting for replies, I looked into VirtualBox. It's a lot
more polished and easier to use than the last time I used it, several
years ago. I was worried about how to run Windows in a guest machine,
since I have just the one product key in my host machine, but this very
good video showed me how I could install a Windows 10 guest OS without a
product key:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XFa_2cKzuk>

So I went ahead and installed 4.13 and have started creating the chart
of accounts.

One question: am I missing something, or are the word/icon buttons for
Save-Close-Duplicate-Delete and so on completely gone from 4.13?

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2023-03-20 17:33, David Carlson wrote:
> As an experienced user of VirtualBox, I would say that your use case is
> exactly what VirtualBox is best for,  ie temporary computer needs.  The
> main requirement is having enough RAM and cpu's to share with your other
> programs.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 3:21 PM Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19)
> <stan+gnucash at fastmail.fm <mailto:stan%2Bgnucash at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> 
>     I apologize for asking a question that must have been asked before, but
>     I couldn't turn up answers by googling or in the archives.
> 
>     Can GC 4.13 coexist on the same Windows 10 machine with GC 2.6.19? They
>     would be accessing separate data files in separate folders, and would
>     not be executing simultaneously, but I worry about preferences, reports,
>     most-recently-used file lists, and anything else that might get stored
>     in the System Registry or a fixed location.
> 
>     It might be helpful to explain my use case.
> 
>     I'm on the board of a small nonprofit. Our longtime volunteer bookkeeper
>     is bowing out, and the treasurer who will have to take over the
>     bookkeeping doesn't have experience with any accounting software. We
>     have an average of just a couple of dozen transactions a month, and the
>     reports we need are just the standard income statement and balance
>     sheet, plus transaction reports for the Income:Donors and
>     Expenses:Musician Fees accounts. There's no need for the software to
>     print checks or 1099 tax forms (we must file one 1099 for each
>     non-employee we make payments to), though that would be a nice plus.
>         I want to put together a chart of accounts and the transactions for
>     the year to date in GC 4.13. If the treasurer feels comfortable with
>     entering transactions and pulling reports, I will install everything for
>     the nonprofit to her computer. All of that will be in the 4.13 and only
>     that version.
>         But I'm keeping my own books on my computer, and they're in GC
>     2.6.19 and only 2.6.19 for now. (I know it's necessary to upgrade in
>     phases and I'm not ready to do that now.)
> 
>     I suppose I could install a virtual machine for running 4.13, but that
>     seems like a lot of work for a short-term need. Another possibility is
>     the portable 4.13 install at
>     <https://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable
>     <https://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable>>
>     but I remember some discussion in this list about some reasons not to
>     use that.
> 
>     Can I install 4.13 on my current machine without it and 2.6.19
>     interfering with each other, provide that they don't run simultaneously
>     or use the same saved reports?
> 
>     -- 
>     Stan Brown
>     Tehachapi, CA, USA
>     https://BrownMath.com <https://BrownMath.com>
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